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    Ernest Choquin de Sarzec (1832–1901) was a French archaeologist, to whom is attributed the discovery of the civilization of ancient Sumer. He was in the...
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    during excavations in the early 1880s by the French archaeologist Ernest de Sarzec at the archaeological site of Tello, ancient Girsu, in what is today...
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    extensively excavated, at first under the French vice-consul at Basra, Ernest de Sarzec, in eleven campaigns between 1877 and 1900, followed by his successor...
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    foundational to the rule of law. Excavations in modern-day Iraq by Ernest de Sarzec in 1877 found evidence of the earliest known code of justice, issued...
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    François Thureau-Dangin (category Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni)
    cylindres de Goudéa découverts par Ernest de Sarzec à Tello. (54 planches), with Ernest de Sarzec, 1925 – The cylinders of Goudéa discovered by Ernest de Sarzec...
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    Die sumerischen Familiengesetze (The Sumerian family laws) in 1879. Ernest de Sarzec began excavating the Sumerian site of Tello (ancient Girsu, capital...
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    . / publiées par L. Heuzey . 1ère-4ème livraisons / Ernest de Sarzec - Choquin de Sarzec, Ernest (1832-1901). pp. Plate XL. Archived from the original...
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    Louvre (category Institut de France)
    Clermont-Ganneau in Palestine (1873) Antoine Héron de Villefosse [fr] in Algeria and Tunisia (1874) Ernest de Sarzec in Tello / ancient Girsu, Mesopotamia (1877–1900)...
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  • published the first Finnish translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Ernest de Sarzec (French, 1832–1901) archaeologist who discovered the civilization of...
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    on its opposite bank. Meanwhile, from 1877–1881, the French consul Ernest de Sarzec had been excavating at Telloh, ancient Girsu, and bringing to light...
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    of the ruler portrayed is uncertain. Statues A–K were found during Ernest de Sarzec's excavations in the court of the palace of Adad-nadin-ahhe in Telloh...
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    written in the Sumerian language. The cylinders were found in a drain by Ernest de Sarzec under the Eninnu temple complex at Telloh, the ancient ruins of the...
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    photographs due to technical problems. French diplomat and archaeologist Ernest de Sarzec begins excavation at Girsu in Mesopotamia (which he believes to be...
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  • May 24 – Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist (b. 1823) May 31 – Ernest de Sarzec, French archeologist (b. 1832) June 2 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian...
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    . / publiées par L. Heuzey . 1ère-4ème livraisons / Ernest de Sarzec - Choquin de Sarzec, Ernest (1832-1901). pp. Plate XL. "plaque / figurine". British...
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    Gaston Cros (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    French archaeological expedition to Girsu, Iraq to continue the work of Ernest de Sarzec. His work over the next five years included the tracing of the 32.5...
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    Teotonio R. De (1990). Goa Through the Ages: An economic history. Concept Publishing Company. p. 2. ISBN 978-81-7022-259-0. de Sarzec, Ernest. Découvertes...
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    1884-1912; (2 volumes, co-authors: Ernest de Sarzec, Léon Heuzey, François Thureau-Dangin) – Discoveries in Chaldaea. Cyrus, roi de Perse, 1886 – Cyrus, King of...
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    Vase of Entemena (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    was recovered in Telloh in 1888 at the site of ancient Shirpurla by Ernest de Sarzec. It was donated to the Louvre by Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1896 and...
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    Stele of the Vultures, c. 2450 BC, limestone, Found in 1881 by Édouard de Sarzec in Girsu, now Tell Telloh, Iraq. The Louvre Sumerian religion The Sumerians...
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    froidement, tout préoccupé qu'il est en ce moment des fouilles de M. de Sarzec et du désir de ne pas indisposer Hamdi Bey". Devant l'indifférence qu'affiche...
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